ANAMBRA POLICE ACTION ON THE CULT CLASH THAT RESULTED IN THE FATAL INJURY OF FOUR PERSONS AT AFOR NAWFIA MARKET. (PHOTO). #PRESS RELEASE

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 ANAMBRA POLICE ACTION ON THE CULT CLASH THAT RESULTED IN THE FATAL INJURY OF FOUR PERSONS AT AFOR NAWFIA MARKET The Anambra State Police Command wishes to provide a comprehensive update on the cult-related attack that occurred on the evening of 7th December 2025 at Afor Nawfia Market, along the Onitsha–Awka Old Road. It will be recalled that operatives of the Command attached to the Special Anti-Cult Squad, Enugwu-Ukwu, had, four days earlier, acting on credible intelligence about a planned rival cult confrontation, arrested two dangerous suspects and recovered a firearm from them. The arrested suspects have been assisting the Police with valuable information aimed at preventing further cult-related violence within Awka and its environs. Despite these proactive efforts by the Command operatives, some members of the same gang, on the evening of 7th December 2025, operating in a black Lexus Jeep with registration number yet unknown, stormed Afor Nawfia Market and opened fire indiscr...

EFCC ARRAIGNS MAN FOR ALLEGED N423M FRAUD IN LAGOS. (PHOTO). #PRESS RELEASE


 EFCC Arraigns Man for Alleged N423m Fraud in Lagos


The Lagos Zonal Directorate 1 of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC,  on Thursday, July 31, 2025, arraigned one Abiodun Maccarthy before Justice Mojisola Dada of the Special Offences Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos, 


He was arraigned on a four-count charge bordering on stealing and forgery to the tune of N423, 000, 000.00 (Four Hundred and Twenty Three Million Naira, ) an offence contrary to Section 278 and 361 (1)  of the Criminal Law of Lagos State 2011.


Count one reads: “ABIODUN MACCARTHY, sometime in 2018 at Lagos, within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court, dishonestly converted to your own use the sum of N423, 000, 000.00 (Four Hundred and Twenty-Three Million Naira only), money which forms part of N650,000.000 (Six Hundred and Fifty Million Naira) paid to you by Great Endurance Bureau De Change for fixed deposit investment with Polaris bank, while you were in their employ". 


Count two reads : “ABIODUN MACCARTHY, sometime in 2018 at Lagos, within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court, with intent to defraud, forged a Polaris Bank Plc fixed deposit investment certificate with slip no. 332540 and issued same to Great Endurance Bureau De Change as evidence of investment". 


He pleaded "not guilty" to the charge preferred against him.


In view of his plea,  prosecution counsel, B. M. Isah, asked the court for a trial date and also prayed the court to order the remand of the defendant in a Correctional  Centre. 


Consequently. Justice Dada adjourned the case till October 22, 2025 and also ordered the remand of the defendant in a  Correctional Centre.

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